THIERRY LEFORT

Will be showcased at Art on Paper NYC 2024

In collaboration with YOYO MAEGHT gallery

Thierry Lefort, was born in 1967. It was at the age of twelve, without any theoretical or technical learning, that he picked up pencils, brushes, pastels and created his first drawings and his first paintings. It is the revelation, he finds his own way of understanding the world, its light, its colors and above all its beauty. Then it was Chinese calligraphy, practiced in the province of Henan in China, which led him towards greater clarity of line.

In 2021, Yoyo Maeght is dedicating an exhibition to him in Paris, followed by another in 2022. Other exhibitions are taking place in Bordeaux and Aix en Provence.

From this collaboration, several prints were published, and also quickly sold out.

With Thierry Lefort we can speak of the "Renaissance of Figuration", with all that that entails in terms of simplicity, elegance and purity, even spirituality. Paul Cézanne, to whom he had boundless admiration, said that " painting from nature is not slavishly copying, it is realizing one's sensations" . Thierry Lefort offers us the opportunity to reach our own feelings. “The act of painting and drawing demands such obedience that it becomes hypnosis, that it tears us away from ourselves to the point that time and the world around us no longer exist.” Jean Cocteau.

The strength and particularity of Thierry Lefort reside not only in his technique, but also and above all in the rereading that he offers us of the world around him, in particular the industrial and urban world. For his works, he favors painting "on the ground", seeking to grasp the world in its entirety, in the intensity and accuracy of its lights, its shapes and its colors. Thierry Lefort is a master in the art of transcending life to retain only what is best in it, offering an enthusiastic and optimistic look at places as diverse as train stations, factories, bridges and even ordinary parking lots. However, in the representations he makes of these places, the human is absent, but we suspect it.